Penrith and The Border is to receive more than £3 million in Government funding to help create and retain green jobs and support new nature schemes.
The four projects that we’ll receive a share of £3.146 million are:
- The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty;
- Cumbria Local Nature Partnership (Planting For Pollinators);
- Cumbria Development Education Centre (PLACE: Paths to Learning: Active Community Engagement);
- Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (Merlin Magic: Recovery at a landscape scale).
These four of the ninety projects across the country to receive funding from the second round of the Government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund – worth a total £40 million – which will back initiatives such as creating new insect pathways in towns and the countryside, planting more trees in urban areas, and restoring moorlands, wetlands, peatlands, and forests.
Dr Neil Hudson MP for Penrith and The Border said: “I really welcome this Government funding for these exciting environmental projects here in Cumbria. Preserving and restoring our precious natural environment is absolutely essential if we want it to be there and enjoyed by generations to come.
“The combined £3,146,000 awarded to these four projects in Penrith and The Border will help restore and safeguard our local natural landscape – creating and supporting green jobs in our community, and helping secure a green recovery.
“It is so important we protect our natural environment, and this funding will help to deliver this as we build back greener from the pandemic”.
